Overview of Athena and the Wide Field Imager The Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics will be ESA's next large X-ray observatory. While the launch date (2028) seems far, the community has already now been very active in assembling the scientific goals for the Athena and thus the requirements on the...
SVOM - Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor The Chinese-French space mission SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is mainly designed to detect and localize Gamma-Ray Burst events (GRBs). The satellite, to be launched late 2021, embarks a set of gamma-ray, X-ray and optical imagers. Thanks to its pointing...
Survival in galaxy clusters: from ultra-diffuse to ultra-compact objects The diversity of low-mass cluster galaxies in terms of their size and stellar content is striking. So-called ultra-diffuse galaxies residing in the core of a massive galaxy cluster appear surprisingly intact and might be protected by a large dark matter content....
Dark matter searches with gamma rays The Fermi Large Area Telescope has during its almost 10 years of mission time revolutionized our understanding of the gamma-ray sky. It enabled, e.g., the discovery of the Fermi bubbles, a surprisingly large number of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars, dark gas in the Milky...
News from the ECAP laboratory Kay Graf and Stefan Funk will report on the status of the ECAP laboratory building.
3D core-collapse supernova modeling and applications to Cas A and other supernova remnants First three-dimensional, first-principle simulations of core-collapse supernovae have become possible in the recent past. They demonstrate the basic viability of the neutrino-driven mechanism for powering the explosions of the majority of supernova progenitors. Although a number of...
Latest results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a detector designed for precision spectroscopy of cosmic rays that was installed on the International Space Station in May 2011. With dimensions of 5x4x3 cubic meters and a weight of 7.5 tons, AMS...
Radiation Protection Dosimetry: Phantoms and measuring quantities In this talk the concept of the radiation protection quantities will be explained. An overview about the different types and different applications of phantoms in radiation protection and their use for the definition of the different quantities is used for this. The phantoms...
Reconstructing the origin of the Local Bubble and Loop I via radioisotopic signatures on Earth Deep-sea archives all over the world show an enhanced concentration of the radionuclide 60Fe, isolated in layers dating from about 2.2Myr ago. Since this comparatively long-lived isotope is not naturally produced on Earth, such an...
Updates of the ECAP desktop computing system New operating system, new hardware and new IT services for the ECAP desktop computing system will be presented and discussed.
The XMM-Newton surveys of the Magellanic Clouds Using the XMM-Newton observatory, we performed X-ray surveys of the Magellanic Clouds, the two star-forming galaxies nearest to the Milky Way. The images obtained from the EPIC instruments provide a wealth of information about the X-ray source populations in the Small and Large...
Status of Astronomy in East Africa: Focus on Uganda Astronomy and Cosmology are science disciplines that give an in-depth description and analysis of the structures and forms that characterize the universe. Although Astronomy and Cosmology are not yet fully developed in the East African region, several affirmative developments have been...